Vito Manfredi

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Wellers Hill State School Mural

Vito Manfredi Art Works

Vito Manfredi - Sculptures

Vito Manfredi - Sculptures

Vito Manfredi - Sculptures

Vito Manfredi - Drawings

Vito Manfredi - Drawings

Vito Manfredi Drawings

Creative Leap Art Student Work

Motion Pastels Age 7 to 9

Bird of Paradise – Age 10 to 13

Fish CollagesAge 5 to 7

Sculptures

Leaf and pencil collageAge 7 to 9

Observational Drawing Age 5 to 7

Primary School Student Work

Animal SkullsLevel FourHere are some examples from a project aligned

with the systems unit that level four were focused on in class.

There was significant ICT input with an interactive website where the students were able to rotate virtual skulls 360 degrees.

After preliminary drawings the students made their own animal skulls in white clay referencing the knowledge gained on the relation between form and function.

Letter Composition

Level Four

Here the students were looking at the abstract qualities of common letters and how they can be arranged to make patterns.

An important understanding was the relation between positive and negative space. When the letters were repeated additional elements appeared in the overall composition, produced by shapes that may have not been obvious when looking at the letters one at a time or in small numbers.

Tonal portraits

Level Four

These paintings were done over a photocopied image of faces mostly taken from the media. The objective was to look at the image and break it into large areas of tone.

There was a limitation specified of around three tones, so the students had to reconfigure the face and simplify somewhat in order to keep to this.

Important here was the need to look carefully, and to mix tones of one colour and apply them so that the three dimensional aspect of the face was retained.

Volcanos

Level TwoWe started with discussion of Volcanoes and showing a loop of a Volcano erupting.After talking about the elements that might be reproduced as paint, eg lava, smoke, fire and

so on we set to work to the sound of electronic music that we agreed sounded like a Volcano would if it could sing!

Water and LandLevel Three

This project was not primarily meant as an aesthetic exercise, however when the results were shown as a suite the effect was beautiful.

The children were shown images of water as it flows across landforms like mountains, cliffs, ravines and so on. Particular reference was given to how the flow of the water is determined by the underlying structure of the land.

The children then produced a scratchback of a landform of their own devising with simple lines as indicators. The challenge here was to draw the water as it might flow over this form. The works were mounted with white paper and shown as a frieze.

Level Four

This project encouraged the students to think in abstract three dimensional terms.

The main elements were the opposition and interplay between block, plane and line with reference to vertical and horizontal orientation.

The balsa wood was easy to manipulate and glue without the need for hammer and nails. These constructions were light enough to be fixed to the wall using Blu-tac only.

Balsa Wood Sculpture

Life DrawingLevel Four

The students took turns being the model in the middle of the room.

I gave some instruction on how to look for the main lines and areas of interest and concentrate on the essentials.

Colour and ShapeLevel Two

These compositions were intended to further the children's understanding of relationships of colour and shape in a pattern.